Kyra De Novo Arete 2009

"What's wrong with you?!" Sam shouted. "Now we're being chased by bugs and golems, what's next? Yet, you say that Rui Yi, who almost killed us all, is our savior?!"

Cheryl was taken aback. They were alone in the darkness of the drawing studio, and the it was unusually cold, even though the air-conditioning vent was ruptured.

"Fuck you! Don't shout at me like that!" Cheryl retorted. "How would I know what the Dark Goddess herself is planning? I'm just an employee, and you have no right to speak like that to your elders."

"I thought you were split into two?! That makes me mad! Why aren't you telling me things? I'm your friend yo."

(Sam will never shout at Cheryl :P)

"Well, I'm your mother!"

A deep silence rang through the room.

"Mooo-" Sam laughed. "Very funny."

"Well you don't have to believe it now, you won't anyway," Cheryl replied curtly.

Meanwhile, Daryl was having a headache. He accidentally used the powers of Rui Yi's cursed aura on the golem, and now instead of blue he was turning purple. His eyes glowed red, and he felt power rushing through his veins.

Xavier and Yee Meng had finally arrived at the location where Adz's signature was detected. It was hidden within under rubble after rubble, and finally ater many days of digging, they found the location. But the body was missing.

"Where's Adz?" Yee Meng enquired.

Then a faint figure approached them. It was a flanked bodied figure, like a piece of cloth it floated towards them...

"Waaa! Ghost!"

As the two of them were about to turn to run, a voice cried out from behind.

"Wait! It's me!"

They turned, and saw the figure materialise.

It was Hua Feng.

"Remember that time Shawn Ye injek me with the poison? It returned a few month ago and my whole body pain again, and I suddenly dieded."

"What! So you're dead?" Xavier exclaimed. "But why you can come back, unlike the rest?"

"Because I got the love," Hua Feng replied.

"Dun hear him crap la, let's go!" Yee Meng exclaimed, and ushered Xavier to leave.

"WAIT!" Hua Feng called out. "I do this then I can go to the light liao, wait can?"

"Faster?" Yee Meng said, rolling his eyes.

"Here, take this and give it to Rui Yi," Hua Feng said.

In his hand was an orb. The orb glowed a luscious pink. Before Xavier could ask Hua Feng what it was, he was gone.

"Okay, let's..."

Suddenly, Yee Meng snatched the orb from Xavier's hand and before he could retaliate, a beam of light blasted through Xavier's stomach.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH! Yee Meng, why?"

Yee Meng smiled evily and left Xavier lying in pain on the ground.

Just then, Adz appeared from thin air, and he started shooting at Yee Meng with his AK. Yee Meng flew back, and he vomitted blood as he slammed into the rubble. The orb dropped from his hand, and Adz took it. Yee Meng fell unconscious.

Xavier tried to get up, but Adz stopped him and quickly took out a green orb, which started healing his wound.

"Thanks...What happened to Yee Meng? He suddenly attacked me, like as if he was possessed."

"He is indeed possessed. But by madness."

Suddenly Yee Meng lunged onto Adz's neck. He brandished a knife, and placed it above his throat.

"GIVE ME THE ORBS!"

"Yee Meng calm down! What's gotten into you?" Xavier exclaimed.

Adz suddenly released a surge of energy from his body, a red pulse blasted the area. Yee Meng flew back, he knife shattered. Yee Meng quickly fled, battered and bruised.

Not faraway, but in an alternate dimension, the future Xavier and David were still hunting for the S.R. Hiding in the darkness, was Rayiant clinging on to his bagpack. An huge explosion blasted through the door, and Rayiant made a run for it.

"There he is! That bastard!" the future Xavier exclaimed. He fired a with his rail gun, and it struck Rayiant cutting him in half.

Rayiant was dead.

"Yes, epic kill," David hissed. "You really gave us much trouble in the future, it's better off you dead!"

David pointed his rose cannon at Rayiant's head and fired.

Boomz.

(Ris Low, you suck!)

Blood and brains scattered onto the tables and chairs. Other students gasped as they saw this, they quickly ran out of the comtra labs. Outside, a portal had opened, and Yee Meng rushed out of it, his shirt torn and bloody.

"Woah! Yee Meng what happened to you?" asked Daniel, who had just happened to be at the haunted Mac Lab. He went over to help Yee Meng up, as he collapsed to the floor. That was when they saw a sea of students flooding out of the labs. The future David and Xavier walked out from behind them.

"We will now carry out a mass extermination of the campus, all who do not hand over the S.R or Shawn Ye will be annihilated immediately."

"Oh no you don't," came a voice from behind them.

It was a man cloaked in great white robes. He carried a mangled body in his arms. It was the headless Rayiant.

"How cruel to treat an innocent boy," said the voice coldly, yet sarcastically, like as if he was laughing behind his frown. "But you have gotten it all wrong."

"What do you mean?! Scum!"

"You don't deserve the title, Seraphic!"

The Seraphic Ray smiled. Then he opened a bottle, and out came a wolf-man. The wolf-man was thin, but had a sculpted body, it was a slightly soft brown in color, and had beautiful brown eyes. It wore glasses, and had a ponytail tied from his mane.

The future David and Xavier fired. But the Seraphic Ray twisted his body in a 3/4 circular motion, and blocked the attacks effortlessly.

"I can't express my humour on how pathetically weak you both are! Hahahahahaha!"

"You made us chase a fake image of you across Singapore! You? Powerful? You're just a cheap tricky slut!"

"Fuck, you dare call me that!" the Seraphic Ray shouted, his voice disgustingly feminine for a moment.

In a rage, the Seraphic Ray waved his right arm, dropping the brain-damaged Rayiant on the ground.

David and Xavier felt nothing.

"Hahahaha! You're just weak!" the future David laughed.

Then suddenly both of them collapsed to the ground, and he coughed blood.

"Hahaha! I just waved my hand to say hi to my friends there," the S.R laughed.

The from behind them, came four other cloaked figures.

Then he pointed to the Rayiant on the ground.

"That is just a mannequin, I have long crossed the borders of past, present and future. Failure is just another victory for me!"

"YOU fucking..." David muttered, still coughing blood.

"I shall leave you guys to clear up the mess, Davi-, oh I mean Zear and Xavlander."

One of the cloaked figures laughed as well, "you guys have failed to cherish the princedom of Wecyr,"

"Yea, because true peace lies in discontentment and betrayal," said another. "Discontentment is an encouragement, and betrayal is just a dance in this vicious cycle."

Then all four of them removed their hoods.

Edison, Yu Kuang, Wilson and Chien Lin of the WECYR clan.

"Oh, Wilson dear, where is our maid?" the Seraphic Ray asked.

"In here."

With that, Wilson took out a vial, and inside it was a frustrated Victoria Chastan.

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posted @ 7:49 AM.

"WHAT!" David exclaimed.

Xavier's eyes widened.

"Silence, talk the walk, let us move silently," said the cloaked figure. "You guys owe me cookies!"

Before they could enter the lift, the cloaked figure pulled them both up. Then in a blink of an eye, they were at Level Three.

"I thought only lecturers can teleport?!" Xavier exclaimed.

"I will explain to all of you later," replied the mystery person with a hiss. Her eyes shadowed by the wide hood above her head. She brandished a huge staff in one hand, and a scimitar on the other. Her cloak, was a grand scarlet, and the black glyphs glowed slightly.

In one of the wrecked comtra labs, where data of the school was supplied to students, Yee Meng, Daryl and Sam were waiting.

"Hey! Xavier!" Yee Meng shot up happily. "We found Adz's location!"

"What about the rest? Hua Feng? Rayiant? Xin Yi...?!"

"All still M.I.A..." said Daryl, sleepily.

"Who is this?!" Yee Meng pointed out, at the cloaked figure standing still before them.

Immediately, she removed her hood. Sam gasped.

"Cheryl?! You're alive!" Sam exclaimed happily, and went on to hug her.

"Actually... I'm not," she replied briefly.

"Cheryl...?" Yee Meng began to enquire. "Your data signature does not appear on the projector!"

"Hahahahaha! That's because I'm 14,899 yeas old!" she laughed, hysterically.

"WHAT?!"

"I am a celestial, so I'm not really a part of this world," she said. "I can change all of you into cookies if I want, but I can't!"

"Cheryl, you kidding me aren't you?" Samuel questioned, suddenly vehemently.

"No... Samuel, I've always wanted to tell you this secret; and there's more...But I will tell it to you later," Cheryl turned to Daryl. "Daryl, Rui Yi has cursed you with queer powers, though it gives you additional power, you MUST NEVER USE IT, for you cannot control it!"

"What, I got more power and I can't use them!?" Daryl exclaimed.

"I shall tell you more about Rui Yi... She's the one who sent me here," Cheryl said silently.

"WHAT!" Yee Meng shot up. "THAT MEANS YOU ARE GOING TO KILL US TOO?"

"Rui Yi is giving you guys a test, and you guys have to get out this alive..."

"What if we don't?" Yee Meng asked.

"You die for real," Cheryl replied curtly. "Wahahahahahaha!"

Just then, the ceiling started to crumble. Insectoid creatures came crawling out of them. The crackling of their carapace knocked against each other was loud, and like a wave they started to crawl...

"RUN!"

Cheryl leaped and in an instant, she was gone. The group satrted to barge out of the door, and the horde of insects streamed from all directions.

"Get out!" Xavier commanded, and they dashed towards the door leading to the corridors. Then in front of them, a giant rock-like creature stood in front of a long flight of stairs that the group intended to escape to. Xavier turned and fired at the bugs. The bugs scattered, flying in many directions. Green liquid oozed out from the exploded sacs.

"Where are you? Cheryl?!"

Yee Meng waved his hand, and a gust of wind slammed into the bugs. Just then, the golem began to move towards them, cornering them into a corner. But they quickly ran out, into the open field just away from the lift. Yee Meng and Xavier were blasting bugs after bugs, and very quickly felt exhausted. Then Xavier used the very last ounces of his energy and summoned a thundercloud.

"Scripting in progress," the software replied. Carefully, the functions and variations were set automatically, and the thundercloud animation could be played. The thundercloud automatically struck the bugs, destroying most of them. But it had no effect on the golem.

"How many frames did you put for the thundercloud?"

"395, can last us for abit," Xavier replied.

Daryl managed a surprisingly powerful kick despite his size and pushed the golem back. But the golem only recoiled abit, and continued to move slowly towards them. It slammed his gigantic arms on the ground, and rends of brick came flying towards them. They leaped to the sides avoiding the spikes.

"Chee bye! It's damn strong!" Daryl exclaimed.

The golem's eyes now turned a crimson red, and it shot laser beams towards them randomly, trying to hit one of them, aimlessly.

"But it's not smart!" Daryl smiled.

This was the first time Daryl used his new found power, he could feel more chi than he had before he had learnt that very bit of martial art.

"Smouldering Fist!"

His bluish aura turned a crimson red, and he punched the golem with suck immense power it cracked almost immediately. But it was still not enough to finish it off. David fired his wacom into the cracks of the golem, and a rose symbol appeared on top of the golem's head. Suddenly the golem caught fire, but it did not seem to bother it.

Daryl was still recharging his energy and within attacking range.

Quickly, Xavier input some codes into his software and numbers started appearing on the golem's head. Then the golem simply exploded from where it stood.

"Woah! What did you do Xavier?!"

"I just multiplied the damage Daryl did to the golem by 0.5," he replied. "Lucky it works."

The bugs started to back off, and the afternoon sun had faded.

posted @ 8:34 AM.

Part 03 Begins! Please note that all characters are fictional... Any comparison with names and similiar characters is purely coincidental... :P

They seemed to have fallen forever. But they finally find themselves beneath the floor-boards of the school. Rubble surrounded them, and there was dust everywhere. Samuel struggled to get up, trying to look for Cheryl's body in the huge pile of ceramic. There was blood scattered on the chunks of brick and tile. Samuel groped in the darkness, apparently blinded by the thick veil of dust.

"Where's everybody?!!" He exclaimed, exasperated and weary.

Suddenly, he felt a cold hand touch his back. Aghast, Samuel turned to see who it was. But no one was there. He felt the world around him turn. Round and round. Then he felt his strength leave him, and he collapsed.

When he awoke, he found himself laid near the escalators. David, Yee Meng, Daryl and Xavier greeted him, and Samuel felt that bit relieved that they were alive. Then he felt his heart burn; he was exhausted. The school was silent, no evil puppeteer and no demons. Xavier withdrew a queer looking artifact; a projector that seemed to show a map of the school.

"The school is void of life," said Xavier. "I wondered what happened?"

Yee Meng helped Samuel to his feet.

"You're awake, you okay, Sam?" David asked.

"Better than you," Samuel replied.

Daryl had returned to his normal self, but he was emanating some bluish aura from his body.

"Turn the light off, Daryl!" David joked.

"Cannot la, you stupid or what," Daryl replied. "It's just there."

"Joking only," David replied.

"I don't find it funny."

Samuel was still pondering for a moment of Cheryl's death. It came to suddenly, and it felt as if he had lost a million years. Tears started to well up in his eyes, but he managed to hold back quickly. All he saw now, was thousands of stars blinding his eyes... as he transcended through the gaps of despair.

The sound of the escalator rang through the atrium. The deep silence chilled the entire atrium like a blizzard, and there was almost no sound to compliment the long ease of speech. At night, Xavier and David went to grab food from an empty Queers in the shopping arcade. The shelves were arranged unevenly, tidbits and pasta littered the counter. The air vents were broken, and from a hole in the ceiling water continued to drip onto the floorboards.

"Crazy shit going on here...Let's just party through the night!" Xavier said jokingly. "There's nothing left anyway."

Xavier and David then headed to Block M, where the gang had moved to. The smoke detectors were still dripping with water, black puddles of an unknown liquid formed below them.

Xavier pressed the lift.

Ding-Dong.

The elevator had arrived.

(NOTE: Only teachers can teleport in this story :P )

Even the elite lecturers were gone, there was barely any life possibly left in the campus. As Xavier and David were about to enter the lift, something grabbed David's left leg.

"AHHH!" David exclaimed.

Slowly, he was being sucked by some invisible vortex outside the lift. Faintly under the dim moonlight, the attacker's reflection could be seen in the black puddles of water. Xavier struck the attacker with a lightning blade, cutting it in two. When it seemed to be over, Xavier was suddenly struck from the back, and David felt something grab his neck. David unleashed a rage of fiery petals from his rose-gun striking the invisible target, and there was a thump on the ceiling. Xavier elbowed the air in front of him, missing. David tried to use his rose-gun again. It hit nothing and the petals flew off towards the wall, smashing a hole in it.

"We can't see them! How to whack?!" David cried.

"Just try and whack them randomly!" Xavier replied.

Just then, beams of light flew towards Xavier and David, but instead of hitting them, it sent the invisible targets flying. A surge of red appeared where the invisible targets fell, making out the outline of a human figure. Then it disappeared again, and there was signs of movement from where the targets fell. The invisible figures were moving again. Then they heard a familair voice.

"You refuse to stay down, now you perish in my vigil."

A cloaked figure charged forward. Her scarlet cloak patterned beautifully with black ornate glyphs, she slashed at the nothingness, and once again red streaks surged in mid-air from around them. THis time revealing figures vibrating in pain, and as they fell, they disappeared, then reappeared.

Five of them lay unconscious, half-beasts, all with horns. Demons. What was more impressive was that the scarlet cloaked woman took on all five of them as if they were nothing, and the fact that she could see them... and the fact that she was someone they knew.

To be continued~

posted @ 10:57 AM.